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It was a general metaphor but a reference to Windsurf. On the boomerang side, Noam Shazeer went on to do Character AI and came back via acquisition only to leave again to OpenAI.

9 figure is hardly enough when some kid sells their vscode fork to them for more, is it? Why not just boomerang and get $$$.

and... the VC is Google. Gotta compensate them somehow.

IIRC, it is not a VPN, it is a HTTPS proxy with client certificates. It relies on a proxy script to forward certain URLs to that proxy based on URL/hostname. It wouldn't necessaril…

Google AMP had the concept of Signed Exchanges so that you can host content on a third party server while proving its integrity https://developer.chrome.com/blog/signed-exchanges U…

Yes, just one obvious example -- extrapolate to general life. That said, ease of access and scale beyond a critical point can make it qualitatively different.

The uniquely problematic aspect of prediction markets is not really the personal aspects of gambling. There are plenty of speculative vehicles. The problem is it subverts natural i…

I am old enough to remember Do Not Track and its failure and problems associated with it. What's new here? Why wasn't it adopted in the first place for GDPR?

All these years we heard Germans are anal about privacy . Is that only when mass hysteria is pushed against internet companies? How are they okay with this?

It's funny whenever you talk to anyone their "five years ago" maps almost to the time they joined the company.

Obviously what you said is not some unheard-of secret or deep analysis. It is a running joke inside the Google system. But... many Googlers who have a tendency of repeating these t…

Haha, almost everything at Apple that is not seen by the user is full of crap (and increasingly you see user facing bugs and schedule slippage too). Possibly still somewhat true in…

As a host seems to refer to the machine that executes the tool not the machine that is being DFU'd. Intel Macs with T2 actually do have a DFU process as the primary processor is in…

It won't be just a couple. That's the point. The curve is at 50% after an astonishingly long time and is already flattening.

I was talking about internet at large. You , and many clients, are of course able to do it on your box, but to use the whole internet, you will at some point hit a translation poin…

I mean, NSA-blessed or not, the way this happened was not some hidden conspiracy. It was in the open. The reason it happened is all of these machines are basically made to run Wind…

Is this a failure? Absolutely. The article tries to brush this off, but there is no denying it. Operating without an IPv4 stack is not going to happen with v6.

> It’s basically in maintenance mode Has been in more of a maintenance mode with a multiple of those people. If anything, the pace of the product has improved. Regardless of what y…

I mean, the answer is obvious if you do not deliberately try to put a message in the worst light possible: - "Space company" has a major LLM+datacenter business called X.ai. - LLM …

> Who even sells insurance against software bugs? You don't buy insurance for existence of a singular "bug." You can and people very often do buy liability insurance against damage…

> remember when Intel messed up the division algorithm inside their chips? Yea, and what do you remember about that? Pretty much no normal person noticed before someone constructed…

I am not sure if I correctly understood your point. On one dimension, you are basically hinting at another anecdote that proves my point: hardware failure (specifically bit flip in…

It does not have to be brushed away as "brute force" necessarily. We can, and do, build more reliable systems out of less reliable components. In fact, most industrial engineering …